My Declaration of Self-Esteem - "I Am Me"by Virginia Satir

My Declaration of
Self-Esteem - "I Am Me"Virginia Satir

In all the world there is no-one else exactly
like me.

Everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me; my
body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my
actions, whether they be to others or to myself
- I own all my triumphs and successes, all my
failures and mistakes, because I own all of me.

I can become intimately acquainted
with me. By so doing I can love me and be friendly
with me in all my parts. I know there are aspects
about myself that puzzle me and other aspects
that I do not know, but as long as I am friendly
and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully
look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways
to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever
I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at
a given moment in time is authentically me. If
later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought
and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard
that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent
something new for that which I discarded. I can
see, hear, feel, think, say and do - I have the
tools to survive, to be close to others, to be
productive, and to make sense and order out of
the world of people and things outside of me.